Not enough to go around

After watching Morgan Spurlock's 30 days on the life of a minimum wage worker, I find it hard to believe that everyone can still achieve the American Dream.  It has come to my attention that life is so much easier when you're born into a fortunate family.  Well-off parents can raise children in the way that is most acceptable in American society -- Good education, healthy food, lots of extracurriculars, etc. However, a child that is born into a poor family will have much more stress... They will always want to be helping their parents, leading to a much higher dropout rate. Without a good education, their chances of escaping their social class diminishes further.

Tammy Crabtree only reinforces these ideas. Tammy makes no effort to look nice, and the idea of her coming out of her social class is unimaginable. It's obvious that her son wants to move up on the social ladder, but the chances of that are still slim, because he's tied down to his family's current position.  He wants to be a lawyer, but the limitations of his class make this difficult. If he was born into a wealthy family, however, he would be able to go to law school with much more ease.

I believe American society does not reflect the "American Dream". The rich keep getting richer, while the poor stay poor. I recently read an article on Yahoo! News about Mark Zuckerberg's wealth. Facebook's stock is going public for the first time this week, and it's predicted that Zuckerberg's current net wealth of approximately $17.5 billion will eventually rise to above $20 billion.
If his net worth was divided up between 10,000 people, each person would still be worth $1.75 million, which is still a great amount of money.

I don't support Communism/Socialism, but if the wealth from the top 10% of the US population was distributed to the bottom 90% based on amount of need, we would probably be a much happier country as a whole.